"Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data, ability to repeat discredited memes, and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Also, be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor even implied. Any irrelevancies you can mention will also be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous."

Rick Santelli seemed to hit the ground running with his answers to the reporters. The reporters stumbled and fumbled around until they hit on, what in their heads, sounded like a good approach and they would attempt to get Santelli to respond for a few minutes. He never once took their bait. That's leadership, Republican style.

1) Obama admin lies2) GOP: it's a conspiracy3) Liberal media/ Fark: calling this a conspiracy is ridiculous. The GOP is just playing politics right before an election.4) GOP: we found all this evidence of a conspiracy5) Liberal Media/ Fark/ Dems/ Obama Admin: Oh shiate6) Hillary Clinton: I take the blame for those lies. (ok, in this case it would be a different scapego-, er-, secretary, but you get the point)

you got caught again, dems. you coulda gone with 8.0 or 7.9, but you got greedy. gonna be hard to defend 7.8%. That's too big a jump, no matter how you manipulate the numbers.

1) Obama admin lies2) GOP: it's a conspiracy3) Liberal media/ Fark: calling this a conspiracy is ridiculous. The GOP is just playing politics right before an election.4) GOP: we found all this evidence of a conspiracy5) Liberal Media/ Fark/ Dems/ Obama Admin: Oh shiate6) Hillary Clinton: I take the blame for those lies. (ok, in this case it would be a different scapego-, er-, secretary, but you get the point)

you got caught again, dems. you coulda gone with 8.0 or 7.9, but you got greedy. gonna be hard to defend 7.8%. That's too big a jump, no matter how you manipulate the numbers.

1) Obama admin lies2) GOP: it's a conspiracy3) Liberal media/ Fark: calling this a conspiracy is ridiculous. The GOP is just playing politics right before an election.4) GOP: we found all this evidence of a conspiracy5) Liberal Media/ Fark/ Dems/ Obama Admin: Oh shiate6) Hillary Clinton: I take the blame for those lies. (ok, in this case it would be a different scapego-, er-, secretary, but you get the point)

you got caught again, dems. you coulda gone with 8.0 or 7.9, but you got greedy. gonna be hard to defend 7.8%. That's too big a jump, no matter how you manipulate the numbers.

MacEnvy:SlothB77: This is going to go the same way the Benghazi thing went:

1) Obama admin lies2) GOP: it's a conspiracy3) Liberal media/ Fark: calling this a conspiracy is ridiculous. The GOP is just playing politics right before an election.4) GOP: we found all this evidence of a conspiracy5) Liberal Media/ Fark/ Dems/ Obama Admin: Oh shiate6) Hillary Clinton: I take the blame for those lies. (ok, in this case it would be a different scapego-, er-, secretary, but you get the point)

you got caught again, dems. you coulda gone with 8.0 or 7.9, but you got greedy. gonna be hard to defend 7.8%. That's too big a jump, no matter how you manipulate the numbers.

hp6sa:Rants aside, it is kind of amusing that Santelli had predicted about 10 months ago that the Dept of Labor would release unemployment numbers just below 8% right before the election... which came true.

hp6sa:Rants aside, it is kind of amusing that Santelli had predicted about 10 months ago that the Dept of Labor would release unemployment numbers just below 8% right before the election... which came true.

1) Obama admin lies2) GOP: it's a conspiracy3) Liberal media/ Fark: calling this a conspiracy is ridiculous. The GOP is just playing politics right before an election.4) GOP: we found all this evidence of a conspiracy5) Liberal Media/ Fark/ Dems/ Obama Admin: Oh shiate6) Hillary Clinton: I take the blame for those lies. (ok, in this case it would be a different scapego-, er-, secretary, but you get the point)

you got caught again, dems. you coulda gone with 8.0 or 7.9, but you got greedy. gonna be hard to defend 7.8%. That's too big a jump, no matter how you manipulate the numbers.

LucklessWonder:MacEnvy: SlothB77: This is going to go the same way the Benghazi thing went:

1) Obama admin lies2) GOP: it's a conspiracy3) Liberal media/ Fark: calling this a conspiracy is ridiculous. The GOP is just playing politics right before an election.4) GOP: we found all this evidence of a conspiracy5) Liberal Media/ Fark/ Dems/ Obama Admin: Oh shiate6) Hillary Clinton: I take the blame for those lies. (ok, in this case it would be a different scapego-, er-, secretary, but you get the point)

you got caught again, dems. you coulda gone with 8.0 or 7.9, but you got greedy. gonna be hard to defend 7.8%. That's too big a jump, no matter how you manipulate the numbers.

Girion47:Alright, what script do I have to enable to get the video to work?

I hate this shiat.

I used "Temporarily Allow All" three times in a row before it finally stopped loading new 3rd-party scripts and it still didn't work. So instead I just marked all the mediaite.com stuff as untrusted so I know not to waste my time with their horribly broken site going forward.

As if the typical web developer wasn't stupid enough back when they were just asked to develop simple websites, now we're living in an age where they're loading each others' busted-ass scripts all over the place on every site they build... jesus...

1) Obama admin lies2) GOP: it's a conspiracy3) Liberal media/ Fark: calling this a conspiracy is ridiculous. The GOP is just playing politics right before an election.4) GOP: we found all this evidence of made all of these leaping conjectures that amount to a conspiracy5) Liberal Media/ Fark/ Dems/ Obama Admin: Oh shiate WTF are you smoking? Seek help.

Here goes. Can't make a meaningful dent in the unemployment rate unless you are producing more than 200k jobs a month for an extended period of time. Obviously, we haven't done that, so the dip in unemployment is illusory and not reflective of real improvement in the labor market.

The question is - was this number manufactured to sway the election. Don't know, but it is certainly possible. To get that number, didn't they make large upward revisions to the previous few months? Assuming error in the original estimates are random, we would expect a distribution of errors. Some estimates higher than actual and some lower. Some estimates slightly off the mark, and some way off. That all the adjustments were somewhat large and upward looks suspicious.

Please, the elder Bush's administration cooked up a ridiculous GDP number right before the 92 election. This is not unheard-of territory. There are just more outlets for screeching party parrots to blame the other side.

Marshmallow Jones:Please, the elder Bush's administration cooked up a ridiculous GDP number right before the 92 election. This is not unheard-of territory. There are just more outlets for screeching party parrots to blame the other side.

BSABSVR:Marshmallow Jones: Please, the elder Bush's administration cooked up a ridiculous GDP number right before the 92 election. This is not unheard-of territory. There are just more outlets for screeching party parrots to blame the other side.

Can you cite this or are you just making history up?

GDP for Bush I last 4 quarters in office were 2.7%, 1.7%, 1.6% and then 4.5% just before the election. There was the same outcry in the press of 'cooked books!!1!' at that time.

Pumpernickel bread:Here goes. Can't make a meaningful dent in the unemployment rate unless you are producing more than 200k jobs a month for an extended period of time. Obviously, we haven't done that, so the dip in unemployment is illusory and not reflective of real improvement in the labor market.

The question is - was this number manufactured to sway the election. Don't know, but it is certainly possible. To get that number, didn't they make large upward revisions to the previous few months? Assuming error in the original estimates are random, we would expect a distribution of errors. Some estimates higher than actual and some lower. Some estimates slightly off the mark, and some way off. That all the adjustments were somewhat large and upward looks suspicious.

My anecdotal experience is that all the retailers hired Xmas help very early this year and are no longer looking for temp employes.

Pumpernickel bread:Here goes. Can't make a meaningful dent in the unemployment rate unless you are producing more than 200k jobs a month for an extended period of time. Obviously, we haven't done that, so the dip in unemployment is illusory and not reflective of real improvement in the labor market.

The question is - was this number manufactured to sway the election. Don't know, but it is certainly possible. To get that number, didn't they make large upward revisions to the previous few months? Assuming error in the original estimates are random, we would expect a distribution of errors. Some estimates higher than actual and some lower. Some estimates slightly off the mark, and some way off. That all the adjustments were somewhat large and upward looks suspicious.

stpauler:hp6sa: Rants aside, it is kind of amusing that Santelli had predicted about 10 months ago that the Dept of Labor would release unemployment numbers just below 8% right before the election... which came true.

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hp6sa:Rants aside, it is kind of amusing that Santelli had predicted about 10 months ago that the Dept of Labor would release unemployment numbers just below 8% right before the election... which came true.

This regime also claims inflation is 1.7% as evidenced by the new COLA for SS. Never mind that gasoline costs have doubled in less than 4 years...

I guess if you're a buddy and received a federal solar panel loan that you don't need to repay, it's been a great four years. Not so much for everyone else

Obamagalomania:hp6sa: Rants aside, it is kind of amusing that Santelli had predicted about 10 months ago that the Dept of Labor would release unemployment numbers just below 8% right before the election... which came true.

This regime also claims inflation is 1.7% as evidenced by the new COLA for SS. Never mind that gasoline costs have doubled in less than 4 years...